Eric Prydz: Real Name, Pryda, Cirez D and the October UK Tour

Eric Prydz's real name is Eric Sheridan Prydz. He was born on 19 July 1976 in Täby, just north of Stockholm, is 50 this year, and records as Pryda, Cirez D and, sometimes, under other names entirely. He is the Swedish producer behind Call on Me, Proper Education, Pjanoo and Opus, the man who built a multi-storey holographic sphere and put it in the middle of a dancefloor, and the DJ who will not fly, which is why a five-date UK bus tour in October 2026 is news. His own site lists the London date at the new Ironworks on 10 October as sold out; the Warehouse Project on 17 October is a Concourse-only show in the smaller room, billed as his only northern show this year. This is the full profile: the names, the records, the sphere, the fear of flying, the Ibiza summers and what the October dates actually are.

Eric Prydz at a glance

• Real name: Eric Sheridan Prydz.
• Born: 19 July 1976, Täby, Stockholm County, Sweden. Age 50 in 2026.
• Based: back in Sweden since 2021, after nine years in Los Angeles from 2012.
• Aliases: Pryda, for the progressive and melodic side, released on his Pryda label; Cirez D, for techno, on Mouseville, running since 2002; plus Tonja Holma, AxEr and A&P Project.
• Biggest records: Call on Me (2004), Proper Education (2007), Pjanoo (2008), Every Day, Opus (2015). Debut album Opus (2016); Eric Prydz Presents Pryda compilation (2012).
• The show: the EPIC concert series, then HOLO; EPIC 6.0 at Tomorrowland 2019 used an eight-metre-wide transparent LED holosphere with more than 2.4 million LEDs. Holosphere 2.0 debuted at UNVRS in Ibiza in June 2025.
• Awards: DJ of the Year at the 2017 Electronic Music Awards; a 2008 Grammy nomination for Proper Education.
• The famous detail: a fear of flying. He tours mainly by bus, which shapes where and how often he plays.
• UK, October 2026: Bristol on the 9th, London Ironworks on the 10th (sold out, per his site), Birmingham on the 16th, The Warehouse Project Concourse on the 17th, Milton Keynes on the 24th.

What is Eric Prydz's real name, and why so many others?

Eric Sheridan Prydz performs under his own name for the big-room, festival-facing music, and that is the name on the posters. The aliases are not a gimmick; they are a filing system. Pryda is where the progressive house lives, the long, melodic, ten-minute records that build over a set, and it has its own label of the same name. Cirez D is the techno alias, harder and darker, on the Mouseville label he started in 2002 and still uses when he wants to play a warehouse rather than a stadium. Tonja Holma, AxEr and A&P Project are smaller boxes for smaller ideas. When a Cirez D set is billed, expect a different night from an Eric Prydz one; that distinction is the thing his fans understand and casual listeners miss.

From Call on Me to Opus

Call on Me, in 2004, is the record the general public knows: a Steve Winwood sample, a video that became its own cultural event, and a UK chart-topper that turned a Stockholm DJ into a pop name. Proper Education followed in 2007, a rework of Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall that earned a Grammy nomination for Best Remixed Recording in 2008, and Pjanoo in 2008 gave him the piano riff that every festival in Europe has played since. Every Day and then Opus, in 2015, were the records that showed where the project had gone: Opus is nine minutes of a single idea getting bigger, and it became the title track of his debut album in 2016, more than a decade after his first hit.

The reason the career reads strangely is that the singles were never the point. The point was the sets, the Pryda records that only make sense at minute eight, and eventually the show. He is one of the few producers whose live production is as famous as his discography.

EPIC, HOLO and the holosphere

The EPIC series was Prydz's answer to the question of what a DJ show can be at arena scale: not lasers over a booth but a full theatrical production built around holographic technology. EPIC 6.0 at Tomorrowland in 2019 introduced the holosphere, a multi-storey, eight-metre-wide transparent LED sphere with more than 2.4 million LEDs, with Prydz inside it. HOLO is the touring version of that language. In 2025 the idea reached its final form so far: Holosphere 2.0, billed as larger than the original after five years of development, with feature-length custom animations and multi-dimensional layers of transparent LED, debuted on 2 June 2025 at UNVRS, the new superclub in Ibiza, and was billed every Monday for 14 weeks to 1 September. UNVRS was, by the organisers' account, the only permanent venue in the world that could hold it, which is a reasonable claim for a room billed at up to 10,000 people (DJ Mag's listing says 4,000) that I put at the top of the Ibiza superclub comparison.

In 2026 the Ibiza summer was lighter: he was billed for a guest slot at Pacha with Vintage Culture on 9 June, and three RESISTANCE nights on the Amnesia Terrace, on 5 August, 2 September and the RESISTANCE closing on 16 September. No sphere, no residency. Which makes the autumn the interesting part.

The fear of flying, and what it does to a career

Prydz has a well-documented fear of flying and tours mainly by bus. It is the single most important fact for understanding his calendar. It is why the Los Angeles years, from 2012 to 2021, produced so many North American dates and so few European ones, why the return to Sweden in 2021 flipped that, why Ibiza residencies suit him, since you arrive once and stay, and why a UK run of five dates in sixteen days is rarer than it sounds. It is also, I would argue, why the show got so big: if you cannot hop between continents for one-off festival slots, you build something worth staying in one place for.

October 2026: the UK tour, Ironworks and the WHP Concourse

The autumn 2026 UK tour is five dates, per his own site: The Prospect Building in Bristol on Friday 9 October; Ironworks in London on Saturday 10 October; GASWRX in Birmingham on Friday 16 October; The Warehouse Project in Manchester on Saturday 17 October; and MK Arena in Milton Keynes on Saturday 24 October. Between Manchester and Milton Keynes he also plays Gashouder in Amsterdam on 22 October and TAP1 in Copenhagen on 23 October. Two of the UK dates matter more than the others for readers of this site.

London is Ironworks, the former shipyard site at Thames Wharf in the Royal Docks that opens its first season this October with day-to-night takeovers, run by LWE, the Junction 2 promoter and part of AMAAD, with PROJEKT. Prydz plays 14:00 to 22:00 on the 10th, with Aaron Hibell, Azzecca, Kotiēr and Sanaz, billed as his first show in the city in six years. His own site lists it as sold out, though the Ironworks page still showed it on sale in late September. The first season is the strongest sign yet that the room is serious: Charlotte de Witte on 1 November is sold out with a waiting list and CamelPhat on 24 October is waiting-list only, while Jamie Jones on 3 October and the Appetite Halloween special on the 31st were still on sale in late September. Ironworks joins the map in the October 2026 club calendar.

Manchester is the odd one out, and deliberately so. Rather than the Depot, the main hall of the 10,000-capacity site, Prydz takes the Concourse, the smaller room at Depot Mayfield, 21:30 to 03:00, with Franky Wah and James Organ, in what the Warehouse Project's 20th season bills as his only northern show this year. In late September WHP was selling limited final tickets. For a producer whose reputation is a multi-storey sphere, a set in a side room is the more interesting booking, and it is the one I would take if I could only have one: the records at the scale they were written for.

Why Eric Prydz still matters in 2026

Twenty-two years after Call on Me, he is the rare artist who is simultaneously a pop footnote, a progressive house institution, a techno alias people travel for and the owner of the most ambitious live production in the genre. The aliases let him be all of those without contradiction, and the bus makes every date feel like an event. Alongside Solomun and Duke Dumont, whose sold-out WHP nights fall either side of his, he is the clearest proof in the 20th-anniversary season that the big-name booking still sells first. If you are choosing between his London and Manchester dates and can get either, the Concourse is the one.

FAQ

What is Eric Prydz's real name?

Eric Sheridan Prydz. He performs under his own name and records under the aliases Pryda, Cirez D, Tonja Holma, AxEr and A&P Project.

How old is Eric Prydz?

He was born on 19 July 1976, so he turned 50 in July 2026.

Where is Eric Prydz from?

Täby, in Stockholm County, Sweden. He lived in Los Angeles from 2012 to 2021 and has been based back in Sweden since.

What is the difference between Eric Prydz, Pryda and Cirez D?

They are the same person in different modes. Eric Prydz is the main-stage name and the pop hits; Pryda is the progressive and melodic house alias with its own label; Cirez D is the techno alias, released on Mouseville since 2002 and booked for harder, darker sets.

What is the Eric Prydz holosphere?

A transparent LED sphere he performs inside as part of his EPIC and HOLO shows. The original, at EPIC 6.0 at Tomorrowland in 2019, was eight metres wide with more than 2.4 million LEDs. Holosphere 2.0, billed as larger and rebuilt after five years of development, debuted at UNVRS in Ibiza on 2 June 2025 and was billed every Monday for 14 weeks.

Why does Eric Prydz not fly?

He has a fear of flying and tours mainly by bus, which is why his calendar is built around residencies and regional runs rather than one-off international dates.

Is Eric Prydz playing Ibiza in 2026?

He was billed as a guest rather than a resident: Pacha with Vintage Culture on 9 June, and RESISTANCE on the Amnesia Terrace on 5 August, 2 September and 16 September 2026. The Holosphere 2.0 residency at UNVRS was 2025.

What are Eric Prydz's UK tour dates in 2026?

The Prospect Building, Bristol, 9 October; Ironworks, London, 10 October, listed as sold out on his site; GASWRX, Birmingham, 16 October; The Warehouse Project, Manchester, 17 October, Concourse only; MK Arena, Milton Keynes, 24 October.

What is the Warehouse Project Concourse-only show?

A headline set in the Concourse, the smaller room at Depot Mayfield, rather than the main Depot, on Saturday 17 October 2026, 21:30 to 03:00, with Franky Wah and James Organ also on the bill. WHP bills it as his only northern show this year, and limited final tickets were on sale in late September.

Sources

• Wikipedia entry for Eric Prydz; Pryda and Mouseville release histories
• Ibiza Spotlight, UNVRS, DJ Mag and EDM.com on the 2025 Holosphere 2.0 residency; Ibiza Spotlight's 2026 listings
• Eric Prydz's official site tour list; The Warehouse Project event page for 17 October; Ironworks London event page for 10 October; We Rave You and Dance Rebels on the autumn 2026 UK tour

This profile is part of House of MNEEMO's ongoing coverage of the electronic and club music scene, written by London-based DJ and producer MNEEMO, with millions of streams to his name and a party series running through some of London's best clubs. For the season he is playing into, read the Warehouse Project 2026 guide.